Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy

Informationen zum Autor Donna Tussing Orwin is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of scholarship on Tolstoy. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume present fresh approaches to Tolstoy's central themes and assess his reception both in his lifetime and subsequently. Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author! this volume provides a snapshot of scholarship on Tolstoy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Donna Tussing Orwin; 1. Tolstoy and music Caryl Emerson; 2. Sublime vision and self derision: the aesthetics of death in Tolstoy Andreas Schönle; 3. Tolstoy's peaceable kingdom Robin Feuer Miller; 4. Leo Tolstoy: pacifist, patriot, and molodets Donna Tussing Orwin; 5. Leo Tolstoy's correspondence with Nikolai Strakhov: the dialogue on faith Irina Paperno; 6. The worm of doubt: Prince Andrei's death and Russian spiritual awakening of the 1860s Ilya Vinitsky; 7. Tolstoy's spirituality Gary Hamburg; 8. Tracking the English novel in Anna Karenina: who wrote the English novel that Anna reads? Edwina Cruise; 9. Violence and the role of drama in the late Tolstoy: The Realm of Darkness Justin Weir; 10. What men quote by: Tolstoy, wise sayings, and moral tale Gary Saul Morson; 11. The 'proletarian lord': Leo Tolstoy's image during the Russian revolutionary period Michael J. Denner; Works cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Tussing Orwin, Donna Tussing (University of Toronto) Orwin
• Assisted by: Donna Tussing Orwin (Editor), Donna Tussing (University of Toronto) Orwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521514910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51491-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form